STATE-OF-THE-ART LIGHT WEIGHT BIOCOMPOSITE HELMETS FOR CHILDREN

Children start crawling normally at the age of 7-8 months and they learn walking stably by 2-3 years. However during this course of time many times they fall down and get head injuries. For the parents it is serious matter of concern and worries. Many varieti es of head covers or helmets for children have been developed and sold commercially. However they are c ostly,heavy and cause irritation and head itch. Therefore in the present work an attempt is made to design and develop a novel light weight biocomposi te helmets for children. Simple hand-layup moulding te chnique is used for the composite fabrication. Natu ral coir fiber and synthetic fevicol adhesive are used as reinforcement and matrix phase materials respect ively. Initially the tensile and impact strength of the co ir fiber biocomposite laminate is determined and th en a helmet is fabricated to protect the head of the chi ldren from injuries as a product of biocomposite .

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